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On Thu, Apr 12, 2018 at 4:01 PM, Dennis Brasky <dmozart1...@gmail.com> wrote: > "Johnny Appleseed was not carrying the possibility of eating apples; his > mission was something quite different and more mature than Disney's 1948 > movie version. Far from being the American Saint Francis, John Chapman > turned out to be the American Dionysus. No wonder everyone was glad to see > him coming down the western roads! 'The reason people ... wanted John > Chapman to stay and plant a nursery was the same reason he would soon be > welcome in every cabin in Ohio,' [Michael] Pollan writes [in *The Botany > of Desire*]. 'Johnny Appleseed was bringing the gift of alcohol to the > frontier.' > > <https://delanceyplace.com/> <https://delanceyplace.com/> > https://delanceyplace.com/view-archives.php?p=3570 > <https://delanceyplace.com/> > > _________________________________________________________ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
